Graiw-sep arator



D. S. WAGENER Grain Separator.

Patented Nov. 29; 1859I n s l o www N. PETERS, Pima-wholmpher. wmhngtn, D. C.

D. s. WAGEN GRAIN-SEPARATOB.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No.

To aZZ whom it 'may concern: l Be it known that I, D. S. WAGENER, of Penn Yan, Yates county, in the Statev of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Separators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a `full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

k In the drawings; Figure l is a side view,-.-` the dotted lines representing alongitudinal` vertical section. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 represents the shoe and its spring. Fig. 4 shows the compound levers for raising ordepressing the cup.

In Fig. 1- a the casing or frame work. b the lower air chamber. o the upper air chamber. oZ the case of suction fan. e the suction fan. e the fan in the lower `air chamber. g the cone shaped cup into which the grain falls before it is distributed. It the pins which serve as guides, and which operate the cast iron eye z'. Z the cast iron case around the spindle and block, which `are for the purpose of giving to the grain `a cen-` trifugal and upward motion. y j the `levers (see Fig. 4) for operatin the cup-.It will be seen that one of these evers y' is straight,

while the other levers j are bent in such a manner that the nuts Z on their ends may be brought in contact with nut Zon end ofthe firstmentioned lever l7',-the nuts Z receive the end of thumbscrew lever 7c which operates this series of levers z-these levers 7' are pivoted at j', and are also pivoted to the lower ends of pins zf-In operating this series of levers, the thumb-screw lever Zi:

(which passes through case a) elevates or depresses the rear ends of leversij, conse quently depressing or elevating the farther ends whichare pivoted to pins l1., thus lowering or raising cup g for the purpose of increasing or diminishin the blast. Z a pulley having a belt Z for criving suction fan e. m flanges on the loweror under side of pulley Z.' these flanges mi project below pulley Z and just escape the bottom of upper air chamber g--they serve to catch the impurities andwhirling them around thereby facilitate their removal by the blastin the direction indicated by the arrow a (see post). `n an annular guide for directing the grainrinto the cup g,-this guide n is a continuation of,

or attachment to pulley Z. o the power pulley: o its belt. p the shaker :-this isl polygonal in section, and hence in its revolu- PATEN 216,311, datedjjNov/lelnb tions shakes the` shoe whichyby reasoi of springs, has a tendencyfto be close up toa parallel with one ofthe faces of this polygo` nal shaker. r is aadouble-cone sheathon the s spindle: the Lipper end of this sheathismade` slightly concave the better to i lcatch and throw off centrifugally *theigraim I` may find it convenient to add ,s nges`to `increase the force of this centrifugalyactions-Tli sheath is` made doubly conical `for `the pu pose of dividing the c rrent lof: air fromyf e (which `is in a line fwith the widestpart .y sheath). into two currents,` the one passing down toward andintctheleye olf the ston`e,` and the "other up through the descending grain or the `whole currentlmaypass up.` s" a rim surrounding the flanges it on east iron rim i; the object of this rim orflangefsfisto direct theblast fromjitV-hefan intoanarrowl` channel, forcing it to coinefover the upp edge of this rim, anddown lthrought draft-steadying flanges t `to thelargest portion of sheath r. t flang projecting"` from the under sideofca flanges or` divisions to the current of ai y In Fig. 2 like letters designate like parts-4M fthe receiver `whence "l ai `is.drawnbyt blast fan e.

. `In Fig. 3 g is the; shoe.`l `gthe spring shoe, which operates against` shaken p of Fig. l, and is to preventnoise.l In Fig. 4, letters similarto those o areused. C ffff n, In the operation of` myginvention themas; chine is put in motion, operatinglatthe same time, both the blastzand `suctionfansforI `may find it convenient. sometimes to use only a blast or suction fani @The grain then as it is discharged from the hopper, throuvh guide rim n., into cup g,which by `its shape 4gathers and drops itydirectly lover anden head of sheathrr, or aplate and case as its equivalent this i distributer r,`; byfjits 1 rapid rotation give tothe fallinggrain 1a y entrifu` gal force, throwing it; up, and out, in a `circ lar form, within the circular case`,"the then passing up aroundthegdistribute lr, meets the grain at this point,.and separat from it all impurities, carryingthem up the upperair chamberuwhencel they are r moved' by angeslon` belt Z', toI suction fan e which discharges themiat the opening ind cated by arrow e, and thegrain 1falls `down s out of the machine cleansed from `all impurif g. ties. 1W `1` Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to sec'ure'by Letters Patent, is:

The case z', With flanges or divisions 15,k sur- 5 rounding 'distributer or sheath 1', 0r its equivalent, for distributing the grain in a circular form Within said case, and separat-y ing the .impurities from the grain at said point, by means'of a suction and blast flans, Y or by a suction or blast fan operating as described and the purposes set forth.

D. s. WAGENER.

Witnesses: Y

CHAS.` B. BUsoHE T. Gr. CLAYTON. 

